See why a Fiat 126 is the BEST car for driving in London!

[@pawelmariusz]

If you refuel the Maluch, you will double its value.

[@mosca3289]

Paweł Lichwała 😂

[@BigBodyRacing]

Brilliant

[@dkpheonix339]

you are polish right? great!

[@dkpheonix339]

@Karol Szymon Wiśniewski what does "tak" mean. i dont actually speak polish, i just like poland

[@OkOk-ic8yn]

@@dkpheonix339 "tak" means "yes"

[@SzalonyZibuch]

Maluch can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 2.74 seconds ... ... when in free fall.

[@theblitz1687]

oasgoasdjkgsdlkgi

[@MrLetnum]

U know the g right?

[@acenanu121]

this was the best one yet.. tearing up just reading this lol

[@ULc42DMPRG]

Its 2.83 sec at 9.81 m/s^2

[@TwinkiWinki]

Nice one :D

[@MM-hh5nz]

Difference between Maluch and Maluch Sport model? - Maluch Sport comes with a tennis ball on the tow hook

[@manierwarsaw9820]

666Dislikes

[@manierwarsaw9820]

.

[@jkbmik]

made my day !!! :)

[@Jamie-Z]

Tow?

[@maxalwaysgoesbyboat7715]

hahahah fukin funny these ar great jokes...

[@gpi715]

Maluch doesn't rust! It is only fully biodegradable.

[@07filipb]

g pi active weight reduction 😂

[@TriplePavel]

Why does Maluch have a heated rear window? For the comfort of people pushing it during winter.

[@lorakovaty]

Dobre 😂

[@TheKenjoje]

another 'yugo' joke :)

[@Nele_BiH]

our yugo owns that one stay away pols XD

[@galbraith69]

@@Nele_BiH well this saying is traveling around for years mate :D But it is true Yugo share it XD

[@pauljamesshellabear50]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@samma995]

Thank you Mat for reminding us about the participation of the great Polish 303 Squadron in defending England. Brave guys.

[@thenurae.3315]

Such an amazing story, hadn't heard that before. Props to Mat for the history lesson and an absolute salute to those heroes!

[@Przemo-c]

- Maluch is a quiet car. - Sure but that's only because your knees are blocking your ears.

[@750kv8]

😂

[@ArtUniverse]

classic joke in Poland :-)

[@hmxstrx]

Ha ha Ha! Good one

[@mozart983]

- What is the most silent Car? - Fiat 126p, because you are blocking your ears by your knee, when you sit.. [I know that joke in this version..]

[@flepix]

@@mozart983 Me too.

[@yaroslavic1473]

Here is one polish joke about maluch: When does the Maluch reach its highest speed? During towing.

[@wojtek_sanitarnik]

🤣🤣🤣

[@mareczek00713]

Had a maluch, actually managed to push it to 75 mph, 52s 0-60, still funny to drive though ;)

[@Wok_Agenda]

Oh Kurwa

[@dodgers89]

Back in late 90's, we were doing around 120-125kph with four people on board, so it wasn't that bad ;)

[@yme4me]

Ziom Polish zawsze kurwa zawsze z duzej. Z malej piszesz polerowac.

[@Poki3]

When I was a kid, the belt in the engine snapped when we were driving on vacation. My dad used my moms pantihose as a substitute and it worked.

[@EngiNetion]

*Wangan Midnight flashbacks*

[@GhostOfDamned]

@@EngiNetion *Devil z flashbacks*

[@mayuravirus6134]

@@GhostOfDamned Testarossa flashbacks

[@Lionn8563]

My grandad did the same thing on his old ford taunus 17m

[@shaungreer3350]

Made me laugh lol

[@SiemaZiomek]

The Maluch is the quietest car- if you are sitting in it, your knees will cover your ears.

[@Zero-dj7yp]

Kikster

[@Dawso80]

jeff can no fakt

[@karlis-blums]

yeh! that's the one! :D

[@the_OCD_Garage]

Awesome

[@crusaderanimation6967]

noise reduction system XD kappa

[@grzegorz8129]

The flopping down mirror is actually a feature. They were designed that way so they'd fold down after certain speed to improve aerodynamics.

[@tobiasleiminger5920]

Really? Sorry if I sound naive, but car engineers back then were a lot more creative so I must ask.

[@grzegorz8129]

​@@tobiasleiminger5920 Nah mate, it's one of those common Polish jokes about Maluch. ;)

[@tobiasleiminger5920]

@@grzegorz8129 alright thanks for that still ^^

[@Donata1]

This sound! The sound of this Maluch’s engine. The sound of my childhood:)

[@m.m14433]

Haha i remember visiting grandma in poland and seeing these things everywhere. I love them.

[@rogerhudson2814]

The can be well soundproofed, at only a small cost in performance. My 126 had ONE aftermarket electric window (passenger side) and runflat tyres (which were horrible). GREAT CAR. The engine will take Abarth tuning parts.

[@kevinwtf4637]

@@m.m14433 in cuba you can also see many, in fact my father has one :)

[@m.m14433]

@@rogerhudson2814 runflat tires on any car are garbage and overpriced

[@m.m14433]

@@kevinwtf4637 awesome. I only visited camaguey for 1 wk. Never saw one.

[@PinkyPinkee]

I'm a simple Pole - I see Maluch, I upvote ;) Greetings from PL! :)

[@lukkruk6904]

Nie jesteś tu sam...

[@keithmartin1328]

I work with a lot of guys from Poland. And when we've talked about our first cars, 9 out of 10 owned a 126 as a first one.

[@Evxeo]

Thanks

[@BasterZG]

Widzę że Isamu jest wszędzie!

[@marceltoszeff]

@@keithmartin1328 yeah because there were a lot of them in Poland and Price was like really low one bottle of vodka etc XD

[@Lipasny]

Mat, I suggest you unscrew the driver's seat, bring a tall friend and have him drive the car from the back seat. It's doable and hilarious, I've seen it happen.

[@sebbe5004]

blipinsk haha Ed China can do that i can bet

[@trashcarfj45]

@Eryk Borczuch TV that's where I remember something like that happened

[@aadi8568]

Jeremy clarkson did it in an old insignia

[@gartekk1987]

I had a PE teacher at my high school who was driving Maluch do exactly this. The guy was over 2m tall weightlifter. :D

[@xxxxxxxxxx4879]

Now imagine this in Polonez!

[@marcinbiskupski7507]

This was my family car and we drove if from Poland over the Alps into Italy. Great workhorse and easy to fix. It was only when I got older and when we came back Poland for a visit that I realized how small it truly was. Upon our escape from Poland in 86’ we gave two nuns a ride when we got into Italy, it was tight. But looking back it must have been a scene 4 adults and two children getting out of the Maluch. Good work Mat for getting yourself one and in the process allowing me to remember my journey and allowing me to show my son what the car looked like.

[@maciejszyszko7430]

Great that you mentioned Polish Squadron 303. Good work Matt, greetings from Poland :)

[@TheRutek007]

Respect for knowledge about squadron 303 not many brits have that knowledge

[@czaryone]

10 year in UK , if i told it to any English - they had no clue, or though i was lying - making it up. So sad

[@jakubjodlowski6453]

Respect indeed!

[@kriskris2479]

Znowu o tym kurwa dywizjonie 303 xd jedyne z czego polacy mogą być dumni bo reezta to zniszczenie uk przez polską patologie, ale o 303 jak ktoś nie słyszał to biada mu oj biada

[@1SaG]

Repeat, please...?

[@RichardADastardly]

@@czaryone Plenty of us know about it. You've just been unlucky enough to talk to some ignorant people. kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4nJYpWeeqqLmpI

[@OsinskiMateusz]

The Fiat 126p used to rust already in the catalogues - that's an old saying my dad used and he owned a 126p in the 80s (fun fact, also in Katowice)

[@dante1440]

I remember the day they were ceasing the 126 production, Polish Radio 3 had a special about it with a phone in. The listeners were very nostalgic about that funny little imitation of a car. One guy said he and a mate, on student holidays, had travelled vast swathes of Eurasia in it, usually carrying some spare parts and tools with them. Best thing about it was its level of complexity - or rather - lack thereof. One time it broke down somewhere in Kazakhstan, they took the whole engine out and fixed it in a public toilet. He said he was over 190 cm tall and had since had numerous "normal" cars, he still felt very emotional about the Maluch in which he'd travelled so much. Nearly everyone in Poland who remembers the 126, has some stories about them...

[@jockwhisky1]

Dante Allen Some decades back I drove mine to my in laws from Warsaw to Suwalki some 300km. There was something not right with the engine, like there was ever anything right with it. My father in law told me that he should still have an old spare engine and swapped it in the morning before we departed.

[@edsebert]

12 minutes of Matt breaking the rules in his fiat 126

[@Adampeterdale]

I think you mean breaking the law...

[@marcinotto2085]

Childhood memories: dad, mom, grandma, sister, dog, me + laguage going 400km to the sea 😕 Or my dad overtaking at 100kmh, noise, Everything shaking 😳😅 like warp4 space thing Now: modern car 200kmh, Poland-Chroatia or Warsaw-Moscow booooooring

[@joseanl]

we had a clone licensed car build in Spain, SEAT 126, the experiences are the same, I drove a slightly upgraded version. It vibrated like a MF when you got it going...at 100/110km hour, it was a bit scary!

[@joseanl]

actually I drove the Panda, a generation older from this one I think, a bit bigger too but not that big and still very slow

[@gurozawa]

i had a similiar story, i was 4 years old and there were five of us, my parents and two older sisters and luggage was packed in trailer and we travelled from warminskomazurski to zakopane. police stopped and told us this is not a 5 people car, but my parents just said "if you want you can take him (they meant me) with you" and they let us go

[@Techie1224]

@@gurozawa lol

[@torstenscholz6243]

Yeah, bringing back the good ol' days when cars had character and emotion and car driving was fun and adventurous. Today it's as exciting as toast.

[@dominicpowell9055]

So when is the drag race ?

[@akusa82]

He had the drag race with the little boy 😂🤷‍♂️

[@ryszardadamski]

Its very fast car! 😉 kzbin.info/www/bejne/b16ze2yjZ7WtepY

[@nibhanbaig6675]

I dont know that but the will definately be with against a buggati

[@marcinkienast1134]

Against a Tesla S P100D

[@rezaulkreza]

Against A Ducatti

[@Furokanal]

Another funny polish joke about Maluch is that is already started rusting in the catalogue 😂

[@Mastachazrs]

No no opel rust in catalog ;)

[@Furokanal]

Raf Games thats why we dont see no maluchs, kaddetts or astras F anymore on the streets... Its good to save the ones who survived 😀

[@jmfjcas6014]

Its joke about Opel , not 126p.Where do you see any F 126 p catalogue ?

[@Furokanal]

JMF JCAS i used to see one in Panorama "newspaper" from 92

[@jmfjcas6014]

@@Furokanal :D...it's only newspaper commercial , not catalog.126p, he never had any catalog

[@kosipisakii]

For almost entire video I was like: damn why is he constantly blocking the left lane. Until I realised it is in England.

[@karlostalmajer]

Screw the ferrari and lambo car vlogs I lile this better

[@ThatLoudLad]

I send you the holy might pierogi

[@gergelypap1324]

Thank god this channel is not dead

[@LivingLifeSlower]

Which God?

[@herbie53opf]

@@LivingLifeSlower The thank god

[@mordapl1641]

Film o Maluchu: ma malucha Polacy: *allow me to introduce myself*

[@adrianjagielak]

Dowolny film: jest po angielsku i ma w tytule Polskę/coś polskiego Polacy: *allow me to introduce myself*

[@mshkvtz]

Jakikolwiek film na YT, nawet nie po polsku: *istnieje* Polacy: "przejmujemy ten film"

[@balalaika1233]

*allow us to introduce ourselves**

[@oliwiergraczyk5319]

Jeszcze jak byczq +2137

[@TexMexStrada]

Thank you for bringing back some great memories of my youth! I spent lots of time in a 126p. Here are some ideas of how to enhance your 126p experience: 1. Take it down some dirt/grave/sandy roads, or maybe even on a beach. As it is very light, rear engined, and rear wheel drive, it gets through the loose/sandy stuff surprisingly well, and, in turns with loose surfaces, it is a 911 at 1/10th scale! 2. It is great for chauffeuring a person around: Remove the front passenger seat, and have your distinguished guest enjoy limo-scale legroom without stirring any anti-bourgeois backlash. You can have your luxury cake & eat it too :-). 3. Use it as a nimble in-town transporter: Remove the front passenger seat, slap on a luggage rack, and be the coolest and most effective courier around. The guys/gals from UPS, FedEx, DHL, etc. will turn green with envy, as will the bike courier folks. 4. Get a N126 caravan trailer, hook it up to your 126p (don't forget to gap the rear hood for better cooling) and go on holiday! The folks with the expensive teardrop trailers will match colors with the couriers mentioned above when they see you pull into the campground. 5. The 126p is a great car to teach somebody how to drive with (that is how I learned): It requires precision and concentration, and is great at teaching somebody how to drive by feeling. Also, in most cases, a little slip up at the controls can be compensated for easily and doesn't risk a major accident. It is a great at teaching smooth inputs, because, if you can become a smooth driver in a 126, your should be able to manage any other more modern automobile with aplomb. I hope this helps, and thank you once again for the trip down memory lane!

[@radas92]

Hey Matt. True story . Maluchs at one point were so cheap that my friend bought it for 50 zloty which is roughly £10 back in the day .

[@timorgano]

Well you know what they say... Zagrevev min zlotny dev

[@missingremote4388]

My first car was a 1976 Cadillac coup'dville. I paid $45 USD

[@ewancameron9922]

If the hole car cost £10 i wonder what one of the wheels would cost

[@r3h4n786]

Damn nice 😂

[@pawelnotts]

That's how much I sold my '84 125p in 2001 :D

[@blairo15]

I've just bought a nice clean one here in Australia. I take delivery next Saturday. I've wanted one since they had them at the royal Melbourne show in the 80s when I was a kid. I've got a white 91 model with an orange interior.

[@jano8559]

Drag Race Idea: Maluch vs running Yianni

[@lennon992]

Jano He makes me the day hahaha

[@MrKleru]

Imagine Yanni's face during that race 😡

[@iarpak]

Fantastic idea!!!!

[@emmanuelkurek-chomycz8840]

Thank you for pointing out that the Polish pilots were so brave, sometimes this fact gets lost in history! We all need to remind everyone of how brave our pilots were!🇵🇱

[@puszystyjelen2353]

XD

[@krzysztofkoodziej8425]

@@puszystyjelen2353 sesrałeś się nie kurwa xd

[@maxalwaysgoesbyboat7715]

Believe me in the states those that be knowing admire the Polish very much for many things...

[@Jezee213]

yes, thats something we should never forget

[@MormoCs]

Mat, grettings from Poland and thank you for spreading Maluch history around the world! :D Good job!

[@CDOES]

This is the best old school Top Gear review I've seen. I love the content Mat! Keep it simple and classy

[@gregorygniadek]

Yes! Came here to say exactly that!

[@robertlloyd4851]

Love how people struggle to reverse cars with cameras and sensors. And here's matt in an old Polish cardboard box reversing through a narrow drive through 😂

[@EvilTurkeySlices]

Modern cars are often awful for visibility. My 97 Accord has so much more rear visibility than my family’s 2018 Equinox.

[@blauebiene7028]

Same here. My peugeot 106, build 2001 is much easier to drive backwarts than the new octavia from my mother

[@ChallengerV8]

I had 1999 Mitsubishi Galant Avance and it was super easy to reverse, couldn't say the same about 2005 Ford Mondeo which I got later.

[@mann318is]

it's not - cardboard box- It's made from steel. Cardboard box is a german TRABANT...

[@smithers4420]

mate a fiat 126 is one of the easiest things you could ever reverse. Definitely easier than a modern big car even with cameras

[@bendin11]

The Maluch has full approval of Vatican: it is impossible to sin in it.

[@sIDsleeper]

No, it isn't! ;)

[@xzed0x529]

xDDD

[@TheDonSapius]

Lmao, this though.

[@torstenscholz6243]

That's why it was so successful in Catholic Poland I guess.🤣

[@happyundertaker6255]

You have no idea...

[@dariuszciesielski5104]

Mat thank you for a bit of history of 303 squadron !!! History that connect 🇵🇱 &🇬🇧 .

[@Notyourdaddy83]

„...hold my Żubr” lol

[@TheEryk03]

He knows so many about Poland XD

[@jankowalski1123]

I love him from now.

[@mateuszwesoowski9583]

The funny story about the Polish 303 squadron was that the British kept doubting their performance with the kill count of German planes. British ministry kept sending officers to observe the Polish pilots in action to see if they are exaggerating. The assigned officers kept going back singing such high praises that in turn they were also mistrusted - resulting in sending another officer to observe... which lead to sending more officers to audit... which brought them back to square one. They had several go before they gave up. "A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II" written by Lynne Olson and Stanley Cloud is a great book on the subject. Reads like an action novel.

[@tanmaypathak6060]

Reversing into the drive-through. Loved it. You are a real-life Mr. Bean...Matt Bean

[@ThatLoudLad]

I swear he has a polish mind.... i to jest coś

[@Punzer666]

You can control it like a jet fighter. When you go fast (around 60 MPH in this car), you can turn by opening those small windows near mirrors

[@graenicholls4657]

I drove an FSM Niki in 1991/2 for a few months and loved it. I found 70-kph ( 42-49mph) ok, 90kph (55mph) thrilling... I once wound it out to 112 kph (68mph) on a flat and that was thrilling too, but in the "I'm 19 and nothing can hurt me!" sense... but the time that taught me about being lucky was beyond any thrill and also terrifying. down a very long hill that little Niki got out of hand. it engine braked well enough for the less steep section and then once the steeper remaining decline had begun those little drum brakes went for a holiday. no idea how accurate that speedo is but I turned the engine off after it hit 125kph around a sweeping right hand bend. I figured the engine was the only brake I had and I had two choices. let it spin hard and maybe go beyond redline to destruction, or use the stopped engine's internal inertia to hold it back. I chose pulsing the clutch to spin the engine up then release it to allow the engine to slow, hoping that friction, inertia and compression slowed it. It worked, we got to the bottom of that run (there were 3 on board!) and took a break. I'm sure it would have went much worse if I'd let the motor spin as it wasn't really holding the car back once the thing sounded like hell in a bucket. The damn thing was hurtling down one section of that decline at about 147kph ( too fcuking fast) before it thankfully levelled a little. Yet I have wanted one ever since, and still do to this day.

[@rens4030]

I just refurbished the brakes oh my maluch.... But this makes me feel like i need drums or replace them with calipers?

[@SrogiJogi]

You can't even imagine what Maluch is for Poland. This car pretty much motorised most of our families back in the day, in deep f* comunism... My dad had 16 of these in his life. Most used in driving school... Had actually mine as well... They had price like a bicycle in my youth, lol xD

[@YPO6]

I remember seeing a couple of these cars here in Finland in the late 1980s (probably 87-88) when many Polish families traveled around Europe and worked on large farms during the harvest months. It was quite interesting to see how they managed to fit 4-5 people and all their suitcases in the Fiat 126.

[@Al1en_Boy_The_5th_Kind]

I have this car in USA 👍😎And I have more attention then those exotic sports cars 🤣😎🤔🤣👍🤐

[@iamasmurf1122]

What sort of attention ? Like laughing at it ? Seriously what good is it to tow with or load up people with ? It seems a waste putting petrol in it. It should be a flower bed in the front garden

[@MarcinHRN]

Wow Tom Hanks here?

[@zepter00]

Michael Wilson Oh shut up. Tom Hanks has car and loves it.

[@studiocalder818]

Incredibile A white fly I suppose! Ho did You import it?

[@Al1en_Boy_The_5th_Kind]

studio calderini it’s little bit tricky👍 and bit of money 😎

[@BartekRyder1983]

Once, during a polish university student's holiday (Juwenalia - you can wiki it ;)), me and my friends saw a guy in Fiat 126p trying to move across a river of young people celebrating their holiday. Since everyone was too busy to leave a gap for the guy, me, my friends and couple of friendly students (6 men in total) lifted up the Fiat, moved with it above our heads across the human river, and delivered the car safely on the other bank :D Glory days :)

[@zolnte996]

That mustve been so fun holy shit

[@idiottv6499]

This doesn't translate well, but here's an actual conversation I overheard a few years back: -Ok, so I was driving my Maluch and... -I'm sorry, did you say "driving"? -Pardon. So I was *walking* my Maluch...

[@blumix5441]

And in polish?

[@Progan666]

prowadziłem changed to wyprowadziłem?

[@hubertjatkowski4056]

@@Progan666 More like "jechałem" to "szedłem"

[@michelangeloboldri9893]

Nice of you mentioning the 303. It's one of those stories that aren't being told around much sadly.

[@PriHL]

This is so lovely! I just admire how much fun you've got with the car. My parents used to drive one when I was small. And I saw one in Dagenham last summer. A huge thumbs up for the Polish War Memorial in Northolt!

[@Skorrigan]

I remember my parents and me aged 10 travelling from Poland to Italy in that one. I also remember how embarassing it was to be overtaken by trucks on a highway...

[@jurivlk5433]

@Joshua Morgan After 10 km even the driver gets seasick. But they are so cute and have so many special things like the handaccelerator.

[@mysteriousdoge1298]

@@jurivlk5433 My father was driving us over 500km in it, you pussy.

[@Remington510]

You Sir, are positively bonkers. This car suits you xD 126p is not a car. It is a mobile story writer. When my dad bought it first, it broke down in the middle of a railway crossing on the way home. He bought it when my mom was pregnant, already in the hospital waiting for her term with me :D Later he decided to paint it. His friend who agreed to paint it left the car outside at some point and it started to rain... So for some time we had it piebald orange :3

[@janpiwowarczyk2858]

Nullmaruzero I am sure it was not a big deal anyway- it was so light to push! As well once stopped working there was a need to ask someone else to push and it was going!

[@lunareclipse-]

My dad would drive me around city in his maluch when I was a baby, because apparently I wouldn’t shut up and go to sleep the other way xD.

[@OllyBaldwin1978]

I haven’t laughed that much in a long time lol!! Funny episode Mat

[@sleepwalker3130]

Spent some time in Krakow PL last month, saw just 2 or 3 of these beastirettes. I thought they are already dissolved by the sands of time! Iconic! More vids with Fiat, please)) Greetings from Ukraine.

[@mysteriousdoge1298]

Yeah, they were still popular in the 90's but since then they're almost extinct.

[@pawekrzysztof1677]

Right. The Maluch is almost gone now. It's rare bird. Pitty.

[@radium86]

"Just for the opportunity to exact revenge on the Germans...." *Camera pans up to show behind Mercedes in traffic*

[@danielulrik4140]

Wichser mercedes einfach besser dicka

[@rf8480]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@dimitrijedjurdjevic838]

I’m not polish, but in Serbia we call this car ‘peglica’ which roughly means small clothes iron.

[@hanifchohan8763]

What is mileage of this car???

[@dimitrijedjurdjevic838]

hanif chohan apparently it’s 5.3l/100 km or 53.3 mpg

[@dimitrijedjurdjevic838]

tamta ramta yeah, it’s just trabant, but we call the fiat 500 fica or fića

[@dimitrijedjurdjevic838]

tamta ramta I saw some syrenas, but I never saw a polonez. Serbian and previously Yugoslavian car culture was pretty homogeneous, it’s all just german cars and yugos. Thats it. Oh and mybe some ladas too. All polish cars accepted the polski fiat are very rare.

[@rus84d]

We had many polonez cars in Yugoslavia.

[@twylin8423]

I'm Polish. And I was laughing crying watching this😂😂😂. The best episode what I ever seen 👍👍

[@jwp8212]

MAD respect for these videos, even though I haven't been born in Poland, you have certainly sparked a feeling of nostalgia, melancholy and pride of my ancestry.

[@robertzdunczyk]

Thanks for paying respect to those who fought and died for you. Greetings from Poland.

[@stefankusniez9271]

Worth mentioning the UK charged Poland for fuel, ammo, leasing Spitfires and using British landfields during the Battle of Britain. And that is fucking far from OK.

[@SaycoRa]

@@stefankusniez9271 Raison d'être of the government is to look after its own country and its citizens first and foremost.It may not look OK,but it's reasonable.

[@iamasmurf1122]

Stefan Kuśnież there was a thing called the Warsaw Pact an aggrement that Poland signed with the UK basically a protection insurance , if it was not for the UK and also ultimately the USA stepping in winger you wouldn’t even have had a life to be able to pay or use money the Germans would have continued to send you to the gas chambers so grow up !!

[@stefankusniez9271]

SaycoRa Reasonable, yes. Afterwards. Next time Poles will not fight for your country :)

[@stefankusniez9271]

Michael Wilson Your knowledge is stunning. Warsaw pact was signed in Warsaw and was another story. Thx to assholes like you more and more Poles think it was better to ally with Hitler. Imagine squadrons 303 and 304 bombing London and UK airfields. There would be nothing to invade afterwards. In Teheran and Yalta UK together with USA sold POland to soviet occupation. Soviets killed more people than nazis. Who is stupid, Mike?

[@AndrewNC22]

A Trabant 601 should make for a proper drag competitor.

[@alex_inside]

I have seen a darf race between a 126p and a Zastava Yugo. The Yugo won, I'm pretty sure that a bicyclist could win this race.

[@sheppardpat47]

@@alex_inside A yugo is basically a shitty version of the popular Fiat 127, 2 more cylinders and like 20 more HP bruh My 127 is 45hp

[@madeinjapan2568]

We had 126p and a Trabant 600, and Trabi was (still works :D) like a GTI from DDR

[@jkengland832]

6:34 Hold my Żubr, hahaha good one mate, for that you get a like, you even said the beer's name correctly

[@Bucharski85]

thanks for saying word about Polish Pilots of 303 Squadron. Greetings from Poland.

[@lukamlinar]

In former Yugoslavia it was a super popular car. It has a nickname "Peglica" [pronounced peglica, not peg-Lica] that means small iron (clothes iron). It is almost exclusively known by this name in that region. Original nick name in the region for the car was Tetrapak (Tetra Pak) as it resembled a carton of milk. After the refreshed model came to Yugoslavia under the designation "Polski Fiat 126P GL". Since PeGLa is a clothes iron and the car is small (ica being a suffix for making something miniature), the car got a nickname Peglica.

[@Tomasz_Piekarski]

Did you also have a nickname for DDR's Trabant? :-) We called it "mydelniczka" which in Polish means a soap holder or a soap box. ;-P

[@horstszibulski19]

@@Tomasz_Piekarski Here in western Germany we call the Trabant "Rennpappe" (racing cardboard) for it's body shell made of resin and fibres... :-D

[@qbel4255]

What do Maluch and a Mercedes have in common? The crumple zone ends in the engine bay

[@keszelll]

i get it lol dobry zart

[@zonk486]

it's commonly known joke in poland - it always work, even now :)

[@VyznR]

You have a sticker with a green leaf, it means the beginning driver :)

[@habece1985]

in the front leaf in the back leaf...and inside stump(idiot)

[@xGh0stHD]

@@habece1985 Someone becomes an idiot, because they made a mistake? got it xDDD

[@habece1985]

@@xGh0stHD it is kind of joke in poland...

[@xGh0stHD]

@@habece1985 Ohh, my apologies! Sorry, trying my best to understand these cultural differences.

[@habece1985]

@@xGh0stHD i will try to explain You...in the center of cabbage in polish is "głąb" stupid man is "głąb" too...in the center of cabbage is stump and stupid man is an idiot...with green leaf in poland are driving young driver who isn't so clever as old driver sooooo....if leaf is in fort and in the back so the stump in cabbage is inside...hard to translate because differents beetween languages

[@Furokanal]

Greetings from Poland!

[@DwainDwight]

Matt - I have a 128 when I was at uni. Great cars. went like the clappers. 1300cc, SOHC and a Weber. awesome.

[@jugostran]

In Croatia we call those "Peglica", meaning a tiny clothing iron!

[@клубуодани]

Nick Stalburg Same in Serbia

[@bojanpislevski3685]

same in Macedonia

[@DimKAt21]

@@bojanpislevski3685 North

[@AndY1ksi]

@@клубуодани In Slovenia, we call them a flee :D

[@ohridmacedonia5763]

Same in Makedonija😊

[@dagerteus]

Hi. You can avoid this sound when put 1 gear if you put 2 gear first. Push clutch,put 2 gear ,it will be synchronized . Put 1 gear. Better for transmission.

[@horstszibulski19]

Worked with the reverse also, before put the shifter in reverse, put it in 4th gear, at least the 126 of my former wife worked like that

[@movingforwardwithahad317]

I wish I had a friend like you in my childhood who had similar interests as you. This was the first family car and I have so many fond memories of this. Do not have the mechanical know how to maintain a car as such without fuel injection and no oil filter, so the confidence is not quite there considering that most of my local mechanics are also looking to build a receipt and not a relationship. I love the simplicity of this car, its engine note, the heat from the engine bay warming the seats, to the lack of a synchro all adds to it's appeal. Someday, I'll find a place where people aren't too busy looking to out-do the person next to them and possibly take part in silly things such as going through a drive-thru backwards. Good Luck Mr. Mat

[@lukas430000]

Great review again Matt love this video. Car of my childhood. Had 3 of them. One 600cc and other 2 650cc. Mirror have screw. If You take it of door it has screw inside to screw mirror housing to holder thingy...

[@adamnowak1866]

Hahaha I can't stop laughing, your pronunciation in polish is so funny :D I love your videos and I am waiting for more!

[@appalachiahiker853]

Adam Nowak jestem debil

[@505-g6t]

seeing matts shenanigans treating london like a playground has to be the best content on youtube

[@boban61]

The sound of the engine brought back so much memories from my childhood. Best Regards from Poland!

[@radosawrogowski3836]

I think that it would be interesting to see a drag race between 126p and some old Mini.

[@Dziki_z_Lasu]

Mini 0.8 l had 10 hp more power with a similar weight, that is a lot in this case, not mention bigger engines.

[@jurivlk5433]

Mini is much faster. Drove them both. And as far as holding the road is concerned, the Mini is one of the best cars! No chances for the 126.

[@jacike]

Stock 126 is to weak for that race. But if lower the top ~2-3mm, drill the air filter can, oversize intake and exhaust tunels, use sport exhaust, rebuilt the carburator, change the camshaft, use lighter fly whell, can get ~35-40HP. Or even use bigger valves from "żuk". In Poland it shoul cost around poud 500 quit (without the valves) and used camshaft.

[@jurivlk5433]

@@jacike On KZbin you will find all kind of transformations, up to maniacs who put Suzuki Hayabusa engines in it. Well, 40 HP would be enough to swim in the traffic. But I would prefer the latest versions that had a hatchback, which make them even more versatile.

[@CoolDudeClem]

i remember when I was young, my mum said you always need two of these ... one for each foot!

[@samharwood5372]

Some of this stuff is so illegal 😂

[@MeneGR]

Exactly, unacceptable.

[@Jake-vd8os]

It’s just a bit of fun lol

[@supercarfanatic2078]

Greetings from Poland xd you made my day :-)

[@jacekciunczyk9576]

Hold my żubr(polish beer) is the best part 😂

[@filipch.1021]

'Hold my zubra' ;D

[@olpyx]

Dobre Dobre!

[@74aamer]

Tak

[@endermaster999]

No sayings from me, but my parents are both from Poland and love the Maluch. They loved the video too, it really brought them back.

[@grainyday]

Oh dude - me and 3 of my mates in my green Maluch going for camping holiday with BoomBox playing KAliber44 - summer 1997 I think - we had some problems going uphills but this is when `ssanie` was handy .... amazing you are driving the Legend. good luck !

[@gorniklecznaman3414]

Brawo z Kalibra mordo

[@creativetechnology6548]

UK cities look like one of the worst places to drive

[@bencebekefi7032]

Creative Technology THEY ARE

[@rasszz1783]

Delhi Mumbai better

[@Jucamech]

South America don't think the same, come to Medellin, Colombia and then we talk

[@iamasmurf1122]

Ras Ikp Delhi Mumbai better ? Fucking give it a rest you indians know nothing about road rules and if a stupid sacred cow walks on to the road you have to wait while the fucker does something

[@Ag3nt0fCha0s]

Having lived there I can partially agree with you. I found some nastier parts of Moscow and the VDNX Metro area worse.

[@Lolimaster]

When a smart car looks like a SUV vs an avrg "compact" car from the past.

[@sheekorah]

The trick with fixing Maluch's little foibles is doing it on the side of the road with whatever you can find in the hedge. Once, my dad fixed a faulty thermostat with a small stone on our trip to the lake. It stayed like that for next few months and worked perfectly. Try doing that in the X5

[@Petrik_33]

Pls do a drag race with this Fiat😂

[@theCinator]

Lol against a bicycle would be it's only chance.

[@Petrik_33]

Should race the 720S or Yianni's lambo

[@michacyman8605]

Fiat 126p vs supercats in reverse gear xd

[@Petrik_33]

@@michacyman8605 the supercars would still win xD

[@kakadots]

I’m pretty sure Mat could outrun it

[@befitcycle]

I love this sound of maluch accelerating

[@zofiakawa9031]

The level of chaotic energy in this video is just... and the laugh!

[@KaiNoMood]

So much nostalgia! My family had this car when I was a kid 20 years ago. I'm from southern Italy! I used to ride it every single day! That engine sound is so familiar to me! Thank you for this video!

[@admz131]

I'm Polish but I drive a classic mini here in the UK. Kind of want a maluch now too...

[@krzysztofkalinski2616]

Greatings from Poland! The motto is: the position of the driver in the Maluch resembles the famous medieval engraving: peasant in pillory.

[@jurriaandejongh8677]

Oh man, loved this! I've lived several years in western Poland, and yearly there would be a maluch parade drive through the town! Some of them with the funkiest mods and colors, it was adorable.

[@JordanRants]

lmaooo reversing through a drive through. I subbed

[@patrykzyskowski1830]

Jordan bby good to see you here

[@Diaboli-Incarnatus-77]

Hi, I'm Polish and I would like to thank you for a great video about our national law, which is FIAT 126p, I myself "reworked" several models of this car, from the "toddler" from 1982, through FIAT 126 Bis, and ending with the model 126 EL that this is one of the coolest cars I had, in Poland there is such a joke about "toddlers as they are commonly called FIATY 126p, well:" toddler "is perfect but has one drawback, namely, the crumple zone ends on the rear sofa. And one more thing in Poland, often "baby" is called: lighter cough (from coughing engine) and my friend was tenderly saying "bee" to him. Best regards from the city of Łódź.

[@zonszpl7426]

Polski Fiat have "AWR" System - Active Weight Reduction System

[@edim108]

My Astra F also has it. I think it's a way of compensating for HP loss over time- you loose HP but you also reduce Mass ;)

[@johnmaaate2833]

Imagine how light it would be if you replaced all the panels with carbon fiber

[@Durzy007]

@@johnmaaate2833 but then it will be heavier, because the carbon fiber will be thicker than the sheet after weight reduction made by rust.

[@DOOMEDLONDON]

love the fact your driving around where I spent most of my youth, that stretch of the A40 used to be a good bit of road and of course it takes us back home to Walsall.

[@krzysztofsaa2997]

I drove those for many years. Part of my life ..... Thanks for the smile. Greetings from Poland.

[@Poatan.chama.]

Mat i believe those cars are great for a 1.2 16v punto engine swap.

[@Nele_BiH]

yes if you wanna finish like pancake or jacket for some telephone poll XD

[@ignoracy]

qwerty uiop These cars are fantastic for a turbo Hayabusa swap

[@Staciuuuu]

Why punto swap? You can do a kawasaki ninja or yamaha r1 swap instead

[@dawiddabrowski7138]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6iue4OJjrSGqJo

[@designerivan9775]

I have a better idea, a Yamaha R1 bike engine.

[@lukaszmiskowiec2198]

Great video! We'd love to see more of your Maluch! :)

[@romualdo9871]

"hołd my żubr" make my day 😂😂👍. 126 is my first car. I love him.

[@humphreybrogart8392]

Yeah, I'm gonna need a full series of you messing about in this thing.

[@befitcycle]

You seem to like Polish people thank you Matt! Have you ever been in Poland?